‘Noon against Putin’: Russian citizens protest in Bern and Geneva

On the last day of the Russian presidential election, more than a thousand Russians protested against incumbent Vladimir Putin in Bern and Geneva on Sunday. The "noon against Putin" protest was organised by the Future Russia - Switzerland association. The queue in front of the Russian embassy in Bern was several hundred metres long, as a reporter from the Keystone-SDA news agency reported. Around 400 Russian citizens also queued outside the Consulate General in Geneva. The call from Future Russia - Switzerland was addressed to "all those who disagree with Putin's policies and are against war and injustice", as stated on the website. People could vote in different ways at the polling station. They could vote for any candidate except Putin, spoil the ballot paper by choosing two different candidates or take it with them. What the Russian authorities feared most was the obviousness "that we are the majority", the organisation continued. Putin's lie about the majority The success of ...